[smitty1e]

An interesting read. The basic premise of juxtaposing an explicit religion with finance seems to be that the latter is an implicit religion.

Like the discount rate itself, this seems am arbitrary rhetorical choice.

I agree, at a very high level of abstraction, insofar as both a community of faith and finance are about rendering the future "somewhat predictable", though, in that sense, the future resembles the weather.